Phœnix

phoenix Phoenix Phönix phœnix English Proper noun en Phoenix. III iii 13 A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix At this houre reigning there. en 1829 w:Algernon Herbert Nimrod IV 19 http://books.google.com/books?id=3fooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false The Clementine epistle (which, however, maintains not only the History of Judith, but also a plurality of worlds separated from each other by the Oceanus, and in a manner both of minute detail and of solemn asseveration the Nimrodian and Pantheistic fable of the bird Phœnix) was perhaps concocted for such a purpose.